Research interests
- Topology, dynamics and spatial development of complex biological networks
- Functional organization of cell nucleus/nucleoid
- Functional organization, folding and evolution of chromosomes
- Multi-objective optimization in natural and computational evolution
- Endomembrane dynamics in eukaryotic cells
Brief resume
François Képès is a cell and systems biologist. He is currently studying the dynamics and spatial development of regulatory networks and of secretory endomembranes in the cell.
François Képès is a Research Director at CNRS, the French National Center for Scientific Research. He is the Founding director of the Epigenomics Project (Genopole®, CNRS), an Institute of Complex Studies that is dedicated to the emerging disciplines of Systems and Synthetic Biology. He is an associate member of the Centre for Research in Applied Epistemology (CREA, École Polytechnique). He was until 2004 an Associate Professor of Biology at Ecole Polytechnique.
He is the author of over 80 scientific publications and the editor of over 10 books. He has organized or chaired numerous international and national scientific events, including some in Synthetic Biology since 2005, and supervises two current European Action and Project. Dr. Képès serves as the editor of three international journals, referee for 19 others, and is an expert advisor for European, North- and South-American and Middle-East funding agencies. He is also acting as a referee for European Commission prospective in Systems and Synthetic Biology, as well as in Complex Systems and in Bioinspiration. He acted as the team leader of the first French iGEM team, that was finalist and won the first prize of foundational research at MIT in 2007.
